Ted Williams Reunites With Mom, but Not Before Some Morning Show Drama

Kleenex is going to have a very good day. Ted Williams, the homeless man with a golden voice, was finally reunited with his mother Thursday in a supremely emotional exchange that was delayed because of two feuding morning shows and their cutthroat quest to capture the moment.

In the end, The Columbus Dispatch, which introduced Williams to the world, was the first outlet to post video showing the moment when he and his mother, Julia Williams, reunited for the first time in 10 years.

"Hi, Mommy! Hi, Mommy! Hi, Mommy!" repeated Williams as he approached and embraced Julia in a New York City hotel. "I told you I was coming this year. I don't look my best, but I'm home."

Williams, wearing the same Army jacket he had on in the Dispatch's original roadside video, clutches his 90-year-old mom as she rejoices, "My prodigal son has come home."

When she tells him, "Please don't disappoint me," he responds, "I'm not, Mom, I'm not. I'm through with it all. Mother, I love you so much."

The reunion should have happened earlier, but conflicts between NBC and CBS held things up.

A 'Today' producer told the Dispatch that Williams and his mom had been booked for NBC interviews on Thursday, but CBS swooped in and intercepted her.

"They held her up so we couldn't do the reunion," said the producer, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. They claim that CBS wanted no contact between mother and son until their morning shows had concluded.

A CBS spokeswoman called that account "a complete fabrication."

"When NBC learned of our intentions to bring Julia to the airport (Wednesday night) to meet her son, they told us that they would not let them reunite even if it meant keeping Ted and Julia apart for days and that the reunion had to happen live on their show -- and that's exactly what they did. They snuck him off the plane into a van and away from the airport in order to avoid his mother."

CBS brought Julia Williams to La Guardia Airport on Wednesday night, but Ted "was whisked away by another media outlet" before the two could meet eyes.

"I was waiting for you to get off that plane," Julia told her son during their meeting Thursday.

Ted aired his concern about his mother's safety during the media swarm. "I thought they kidnapped you. I thought these people thought this whole experience was worth some money to them."

He then tells her how certain individuals, possibly news and TV producers, began contacting him to extract information on her.

"People in Columbus were saying, 'What's your mother's name? Where does she live? We wanna go pick her up. We wanna do this, that or the other.' And I was scared because anybody could have come in and said, 'I'm from whatever and ride with us,' and take you away. And then when that woman wouldn't let me speak..." Williams' statement ends there, and the raw footage from the Dispatch then cuts to another part of the conversation.

Williams has stuck with NBC for his appearances since coming to New York, having made a memorable debut on 'Today' and later doing voice-over work for MSNBC and Kraft Foods (a Mac & Cheese commercial). He capped off his busy day of work with an appearance on 'Late Night With Jimmy Fallon.'

Williams, a Brooklyn native, became an online sensation just this week when The Columbus Dispatch posted a video of him demonstrating his voice-over skills by the side of the road.

I agree. Why wasn't he mad perfect the first time? I would think that if we are made in his image that he would make everyone perfect. Not make them successful, tear their lives away, addict them to drugs and other such horrors. Throw them to the streets to live a homeless, shameful terrifying life only to lift them up. What a joke. You must therefore believe in Santa, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy.

Again for all of you that want to blame GOD for your or someone else's actions in life. READ THE BIBLE before you open your mouths and speak.. GOD gives you choices in life, you are the one that makes the final choice in which direction you need to go.. GOD DOES NOT MAKE THAT CHOICE FOR YOU!!! To many of you don't know what the bible tells you and are quick to blame GOD for your problems.. When you are going to do something wrong, and you ask yourself should you do it or to not do it.. HOW IS GOD making you make that decision? He isn't, YOU end up making that final decision.

Exactly; She knew she was lying about her own age by only 2 years when she corrected her son saying she was only 90, not 92, like that even matters when you are that old anyway. Shows you one thing, the only thing people really hang onto is their own EGO!!!!!!!!

oohh yes someone called adentist?? this is in emergency..it needs an evacuation...lol....god bless this man i wish him well,cause he deserves it..just take care of u first..and watch out for your money hungry scavengers will be your best friend now..remember who was around u when u were homeless...peace..

Hey Jerkface Joe, God IS good, its people like you who make misery in the world...Those who suffer here and love the Lord, Great will be their reward in Heaven...why dont you crawl back under your Rock wacko!!!

I think you should sit down and write a list of whats important to you, some goals and then some "things I will not do with my second chance" while you're still in your homeless mind and read it everyday. Your story is a blessing and a miracle. Dont lose yourself in this sir:)Well Mr Williams I will be praying for ya sir. Jeremiah 29:11.